Foldable basket

ABSTRACT

A foldable basket includes a rectangular frame a front plate, a rear plate, a left plate, and a right plate, and a bottom plate. The rectangular frame has four frame pieces, and the front, rear, left and right plates have their top edge pivoted on the frame pieces respectively. The bottom plate has an edge pivoted on a bottom edge of the rear plate. The bottom plate has a lock portion on a distal edge thereof to be engaged with a hook portion on a bottom edge of the front plate, and two slots to be engaged with bottom edges of the left plate and the right plate respectively.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates generally to a container, and moreparticularly to a foldable basket.

2. Description of the Related Art

Typically, conventional foldable baskets have a plurality of plates forfold or collapse that the basket may be folded to reduce the size forstorage.

U.S. Pat. No. 5,443,173 discloses a collapsible basket, which consistsof a plurality of individual plates constructed of iron pieces. Theplates are capable of being inter-lockedly assembled to form the basketor being collapsed for storage. However, to assemble or collapse thatbasket of the patent, user must get well understanding of the inter-lockmechanism. In other words, the basket of the patent has a difficult wayof assembly and collapse that user has to learn it for a time. Inaddition, the plates may be get lost when the basket is collapsed thatwill cause the basket may not be assembled again.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a foldablebasket, which has a plurality of members pivoted together for fold andno individual member.

According to the objective of the present invention, a foldabletreadmill includes a rectangular frame a front plate, a rear plate, aleft plate, and a right plate, and a bottom plate. The rectangular framehas four frame pieces, and the front, rear, left and right plates havetheir top edge pivoted on the frame pieces respectively. The bottomplate has an edge pivoted on a bottom edge of the rear plate. The bottomplate has a lock portion on a distal edge thereof to be engaged with ahook portion on a bottom edge of the front plate, and two slots to beengaged with bottom edges of the left plate and the right platerespectively.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of FIG. 1, showing the bottom plate;

FIG. 3 is a first operative diagram of the preferred embodiment of thepresent invention, showing the separating bottom plate and front plate;

FIG. 4 is a second operative diagram of the preferred embodiment of thepresent invention, showing the engaged bottom plate and front plate;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the preferred embodiment of the presentinvention, showing the basket being assembled; and

FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. 5.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a foldable basket 10 of the preferredembodiment of the present invention includes a rectangular frame 11,four plates 21, and a bottom plate 21.

The rectangular frame 11 has four frame pieces 12 on four edges thereof.

The plates 21 include a front plate 211, a rear plate 212, a left plate213, and a right plate 214. Each of the plates 21 has a tube 22 on a topedge thereof to pivotally engage the frame pieces 12 of the rectangularframe 11 respectively that the plates 21 are perpendicular to therectangular frame 11. At least a pair of opposite plates 21 have handles24. On an edge of the front plate 211 has a stop device 26 extendingtoward the rear plate 212 and touching the left plate 213 and the rightplate 214.

The bottom plate 31 has an edge pivoted on a bottom edge of the rearplate 212. The bottom plate 31 has lock portion 32 on a distal edgethereof. The front plate 211 has a hook portion 28 on a bottom edgethereof to be engaged with the lock portion 32. The bottom plate 21 hastwo slots 34 on left and right sides and two stop walls 36 projectedfrom outer edges of the slots 34. The left plate 213 and the right plate214 have their bottom edges engaged with the slots 34 and restricted bythe stop walls 36 for not swinging outwardly.

As shown in FIG. 3, to assemble the basket of the present invention, theleft plate 213 and the right plate 214 are swung inwardly first, andthen engaging the lock portion 32 of the bottom plate 31 with the hookportion 28 of the front plate 211, as shown in FIG. 4, that the rearplate 212, the bottom plate 31 and the front plate 211 are connectedtogether. And then, as shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, swinging the leftplate 213 and the right plate 214 outwardly to engage the bottom edgesthereof with the slots 34 of the bottom plate 31 that the basket of thepresent invention is assembled.

To fold the basket of the present invention, the left plate 213 and theright plate 214 are swung inwardly to disengage the slots 34 first, andthen the bottom plate 31 is swung upwardly to disengage the lock portion32 with the hook portion 34. Now the plates 21 are disengaged with eachother except the bottom plate 31 and the rear plate 212. At last, all ofthe plates 21 are swung upwardly to stack on the rectangular frame thatthe fold of the basket of the present invention is completed. The sizeof the folded basket is small for storage.

In conclusion, the functions of the present invention include that thebasket of the present invention is foldable, and all of the plates 21are pivoted on the rectangular 22 and the bottom plate 31 is pivoted onthe rear plate 212 that all members of the basket of the presentinvention are connected together, therefore, no individual member willlose to affect the assembly of the basket.

1. A foldable basket, comprising: a rectangular frame having four framepieces; four plates including a front plate, a rear plate, a left plate,and a right plate having top edges thereof pivoted on the frame piecesof the rectangular frame respectively, wherein the plates are swungdownwardly; and a bottom plate, which has an edge pivoted on a bottomedge of the rear plate, having a lock portion on a distal edge thereofto be engaged with a hook portion on a bottom edge of the front plate,and two slots to be engaged with bottom edges of the left plate and theright plate respectively.
 2. The foldable basket as defined in claim 1,wherein one of the front plate and the rear plate has a stop deviceextending toward the other one thereof and touching the left plate andthe right plate respectively.
 3. The foldable basket as defined in claim1, wherein the bottom further has two stop walls projected from outeredges of the slots respectively.
 4. The foldable basket as defined inclaim 1, wherein at least a pair of the opposite plates have handles onthe top edges thereof.
 5. The foldable basket as defined in claim 1,wherein the plates have a tube on the top edge respectively to beengaged with the frame pieces of the rectangular frame.